SWIFT, JonathanA Tale of A Tub London: for John Nutt, 1704. FIRST EDITION. 1 vol., 7-1/8Ã¶ x 4-1/2Ã¶, with the initial leaf of Ã´Treatises writ by the same AuthorÃ¶ and the original final blank endleaf, complete. Bound in 19th C. 1/2 red morocco, ribbed gilt decorated spine, top edge gilt, by Stikeman.\r\nTeerink-Scouten 217; Rothschild 1992.\r\nSwift's classic satire on religious controversy, as exemplified in the quarrels between Peter (Roman Catholicism), Martin (Luther), and Jack (Calvin). It was his first major work, and many years later in his old age, he is said to have exclaimed, "What a genius I had when I wrote that book!"

(Dampier, William) Admiralty OfficeList of Her Majesty's Ships and vessells with the numbers of men, and Numbers and Natures of the Guns thought proper to be Established for them, prepared in pursuance of an order ... of the 9th of August 1699, And another dated 7th of December 1702 1704. Scribal ms. [42 pp plus blanks]. Small 4to. Contemporary Restoration binding of black morocco elaborately gilt, triangular corner panels closely tooled Ã la grotesque to form a central diamond shape, the center and the outer border decorated with tulips, flowers, circles and leafy tendrils, spine tooled in gilt, two metal clasps with engraved flowers, gilt edges. Blue cloth folding-box and morocco-backed slipcase. Scribal ms. [42 pp plus blanks]. Small 4to. An extremely handsome little volume detailing the ships of the Royal Navy arranged by rating, also including a list of officers, salaries and allowances of officers, the establishment of Marines, allowances of ordnance and provisions.Among the many ships listed here is the Roebuck, the fifth rate warship on which William Dampier prosecuted the first scientific expedition to Australia in 1699. It was on this voyage that he became the first European to set foot on the Australian mainland. The Roebuck was lost just off Ascension Island on the return voyage in April 1701. Provenance: Robert S. Pirie (bookplate)

Spelman, Henry; Ryves, ThomasTwo Tracts: Tract I Entitled, De Nom Temerandis Eclesiis, &c. By Sir Henry Spelman Knight. Tract II. The Poor Vicar's Plea for Tythes, &c. By Thomas Ryves, Doctor of the Civil Laws Printed for Awnsham and John Churchill - . Hardback. Date of Pub: 1704. With a prefatory account of the Authors and their work. 8vo, Tract I - 128pp, Tract II - 120pp. Condition: Rebound in quarter calf on marbled boards, with raised bands and gilt stamped label on the spine. Page edges are shaded. Separate title pages for each tract: (1) De Nom Temerandis Eclesiis, Churches Not to be Violated. A Tract of the Rights and Respects Due onto Churches; written to a gentleman, who having the appropriate Parsonage, imployed the Church to Prophane Uses, and left the Parishoners uncertainly provided of Divine Service in a Parish there adjoining. The Sixth Edition. (2) The Poor Vicar's Plea. Declaring that a Competency of Means is due to them out of the Tythes of their several Parishes, notwithstanding the Impropriations. Author(s) descriptions: Thomas Ryves (1583 - 1652) was educated at Winchester and New College, Cambridge. In 1617 he became Judge of Faculties in Prerogative Court in Ireland. In 1623 he resigned his post and returned to England where he became King's advocate and subsequently fought for Charles I. He was knighted in 1644. Henry Spelman (born c. 1562 and died 1641) was Educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1597 he entered Parliament as a member for Castle Rising and 1604 he was High Sheriff of his county. He served on a commission to inquire into disputed Irish Estates in 1617, and later took part in legal inquiries into the exactation levied on behalf of the Crown in civil and ecclesiastical courts. Not a first edition copy. . . . [Attributes: Hard Cover]

Swift, Jonathan.A Tale of a Tub. Written for the Universal Improvement of Mankind. Diu multumque desideratum. To which is added, An Account of a Battel between the Antient and Modern Books in St. James&#146;s Library. Printed for John Nutt, London 1704 - Format: Octavo (7 1/4" x 4 3/8", 184mm x 113mm). Binder&#146;s blank, A6 B-X8 Y2 [$4], binder&#146;s blank; 168 leaves; [12], 322, blank. Collated perfect with the Teerink-Scouten copy (Penn PR3724 .T3 1704). Number of Volumes: Bound in contemporary (?) full grained calf with a single gold fillet border. Single gold fillet on edges of covers and on turn-down. On the spine, five raised bands with broken single gilt fillet. Panels with single gilt fillet top and bottom. Title gilt in second panel, date at tail. Head- and tail-piece with five gilt strokes. Marbled end-papers. All edges gilt. Slight wear to joints. Rear free end-paper precarious. Fresh and tight; a truly lovely copy. Priority of issue has never been established, but the present item leaves blank the word "uterinus" on p. 320, line 10. "A Tale of a Tub" was Swift&#146;s first major published work. It is nominally a satiric allegory about the Western Church: (St.) Peter, Jack (Calvin) and Martin (Luther) inherit (and subsequently alter) "coats" from their "Father"; it is densely allusive and sardonic, replete with jibes at coevals and with artificial hiatuses (wittily described &#150;huge, small, well-argued etc.) in the manuscript. It is riddled with digressions, such that the Tale is several, and takes on many subjects; to wit: "I have one Word to say upon the Subject of Profound Writers, who are grown very numerous of late ; And, I know very well, the judicious World is resolved to lift me in that Number. I conceive therefore, as to the Business of being Profound, that it is with Writers, as with Wells ; A Person with good Eyes may see to the Bottom of the deepest, provided any Water be there ; and, that often, when there is nothing in the world at the Bottom, besides Dryness and Dirt, tho&#146; it be but a Yard and a half under Ground, it shall pass, however, for wondrous Deep, upon no wiser a Reason than because it is wondrous Dark." (p. 217.) "The Battel between the Antient and Modern Books" is a literal one; the books themselves quarrel, rather than their authors or readers. It includes an attack on Richard Bentley and William Wotton, who questioned the authenticity of certain ancient texts. There is a third work in the collection, though not mentioned on the title-page, in epistolary form: "A Discourse Concerning the Mechanical Operation of the Spirit. In a Letter To a Friend. A Fragment." It is largely an attack on religious fanaticism, and on eccentric forms of worship. Altogether the book shows Swift&#146;s mind at its sharpest, and is a wide if highly distorted window onto the intellectual world of the late seventeenth century. Teerink-Scouten 217, Rothschild 1992. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

PITT, Robert.The Antidote: or, the preservative of health and life, and the restorative of physick to its sincerity and perfection. The useful and pernicious medicines: the natural and artificial cures: the natural and artificial deaths are distinguish'd. And the necessity asserted of reviving the former constant practice of physicians preparing and improving their most valued medicines, and the apothecaries delivering in their shops the common general remedies. Printed for John Nutt near Stationers-Hall. 1704 [50], 270pp, half title. 8vo. A v.g. clean copy. Full contemporary panelled calf, raised bands; sl. wear to head of spine, v. sl. crack to upper section of front joint, small faint ink splash to leading edge of book block. Bookplate of William Wollascott.ESTC T22176. One of two issues of the first edition. In this issue, the second line of the imprint begins: 'Stationers'. Robert Pitt, 1653-1713, was involved in the controversy which followed the establishment of a dispensary by the College of Physicians in 1696. He published in 1702

Pierre BayleA philosophical commentary on these words of the Gospel, Luke XIV. 23. Compel them to come in, that my house may be full. In four parts. (2 volume set) London: J. Darby, and sold by J. Morphew, 1704. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 2 volume set. First English edition of Commentaire Philosophique. Collated: iv, [36], 365 [i.e. 364, 2], 369-774, [2] pages. Contemporary calf leather. Gilt spine. Restoration to hinges and head and tails of spines. Page ends speckled red. Perforated stamp and stamp of Meadville Theological School on the title pages. A few stray pencil marks. BMC II, 631.148 <br><br>Contents: In four parts. I. Containing a Refutation of the Literal Sense of this Passage. II. An Answer to all Objections. III. Remarks on those Letters of St. Austin which are usually alledg'd for the compelling of Hereticks, and particularly to justify the late Persecution in France. IV. A Supplement, proving, That Hereticks have as much Right to persecute the Orthodox, as the Orthodox them. <br><br> Pierre Bayle (1647-1706) was an important Huguenot scholar who fled from French religious intolerance to Geneva and Holland. Best known for his Historical and Critical Dictionary (Dictionnaire historique) and his Philosophical Commentary (Commentaire Philosophique), Bayle's work influenced and advanced enlightenment thought of the 18th century. BayleÃ¢Â€Â™s influence can be seen in the works of Diderot, Locke, Leibniz, Kant, Hume, Berkeley, among others. BayleÃ¢Â€Â™s work combined biography, history, literary criticism, theology, in addition to philosophical treatments of toleration, the problem of evil, epistemological questions, etc. Bayle's extensive commentary propelled his reader's interest. (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) BayleÃ¢Â€Â™s Commentary was written in the context of the 1685 revocation of the Edict of Nantes and the massacre and persecution of the Protestants in France. Bayle attempts to show that there is a biblical argument for toleration of heretics and considers the history of toleration and persecution of heresy and orthodoxy. Provenance: Bookplate and pencil signature of William Kerrian.

BORRI, R.F. Christopher.AN ACCOUNT OF COCHIN-CHINA: In Two Parts: The First Treats of the Temporal State [London 1704 Churchill]. 3/4 blue cloth, over marbled boards. very good, 21 x 32 cm., extracted from Collection of Voyages. & Travels, pages 787-838, index, complete in itself. R A R E. AN EARLY ACCOUNT OF THE THREE KINGDOMS OF INDO-CHINA Part I: OF THE TEMPORAL STATE OF THE KINGDOM OF COCHIN-CHINA Part II: OF WHAT CONCERNS THE SPIRITUAL. * Churchill states in vol ii: "The original work was written in Italian by the R.F. Christopher Borri, a Milaneze, of the Society of Jesus, who Was One of the First Missioners in that Kingdom." This is the first account of Vietnam by any westerner and reported by a Society of Jesus jesuit. * This is an early primary resource, translated into English by an unstated other. Borri lived some five years in the Kingdom from 1617-1622 and was an early Italian Jesuit and missionary to the Tonkinese natives of North Vietnam. * An important early work on Vietnam and Christianity in that land. Also covers name, situation and extent of the Kingdom of Cochin-China, climate, nature of the country, fruitfulness, costume of silks, buildings, the animals, elephants, rhinoceros, abadas, customs, manners, ways of living, habits & cures. Scholars, diet, drink, treats, tea, physicians, medicines, bleeding. Civil & political government, language, trials, law, thieves, adulters: killed by elephants ! The state of churches & converts & sects, in the Kingdom. Banished Dutch ship, favorer on the Portuguese rich trade between Japanese & Chinese. * BIBLIOGRAPHY E. Cox: A REFERENCE GULIDE TO THE LITERATURE OF TRAVEL p.323. * H. Cordier: INDOSINICA, no.1919 * Color scans can be sent by email. Images displayed may not always be the exact photo of the copy in stock for sale at any given time. If you want to see the exact image of the book or edition in stock today, please request this by email. . Photos of most of our books are posted to our .

(KING, William)The Fairy Feast, written by the Author of A Tale of a Tub, and the Mully of Mountown. Printed in the Year 1704. 1704 12pp, woodcut ornament to titlepage. Folio. Some browning and light foxing, repair to verso of small gutter tears to first two leaves. Disbound.ESTC T71667, BL & Oxford only in UK; 6 copies in America. Foxon K62, Teerink-Scouten 834. The work purports to be by Jonathan Swift, and is a piracy, under a new title, of William King's poem

HUTTON, Charles.A mathematical and philosophical dictionary: containing an explanation of the terms, and an account of the several subjects, comprized under the heads of mathematics, astronomy, and philosophy, both natural and experimental FIRST EDITION of the most comprehensive scientific encyclopaedia in English to date, and the only large one since Harris?s Lexicon Technicum (1704-1710) almost a century earlier. ?The dictionary reveals a deep and extensive knowledge of British and continental works and is still used by historians as a valuable source. The British reader was provided with bibliographical and biographical information on continental mathematicians such as D?Alembert, Euler, and Lagrange. The entries on engineering are particularly valuable, while mechanics, optics, and astronomy are less complete, especially from the point of view of mathematical treatment? (ODNB). It also includes the first publication of Thomas Pellett?s 1727 catalogue of Newton?s papers.Roberts & Trent, Bibliotheca mechanica, pp. 169-170.2 volumes, 4to, pp. viii, 650; 2 leaves, pp. 756, and 37 engraved plates. Half-titles. Contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt in compartments, green morocco labels (joints cracked but perfectly firm). Armorial bookplates of William Brodie.

Solis, Antonio De; Filippo CorsiniIstoria Della Conquista Del Messico; Della Popolazione, e de' Progressi nell'America Settentrionale Conosciuta Sotto Nome Di Nuova Spagna(Marcus Crahan copy) A. Poletti, Venezia 1704 - Large Octavo. 624p. Second Edition in Italian. [8] preliminary leaves, engraved portrait frontispiece of the author and 7 other plates. The author was a noted Spanish historian. He remained the most important European source on Latin American History until the early Nineteenth Century. His negative view of Diaz Castillo was based on its poor Spanish style (as well as the criticism of Cortez whom Solis admires). He describes the three years between the appointment of Cortes and the fall of Mexico City. Sabin 86486. From the esteemed libraries of Marcus Crahan and Robert Washington Oates with their bookplates. Beautifully printed in manuscript, an assessment of this work by a previous owner in Italian to first blank. Bound in contemporary decorative vellum, paper spine label and shelf label in brown ink, pieces torn away from lower corners of the indice not affecting text, upper cover with piece torn from binding. A very good copy of this important work.

(Gardening)Dictionarium Rusticum & Urbanicum: or a Dictionary of all Sorts of Country Affairs, Handicraft, Trading, and Merchandizing. Containing more particularily The Whole art of Gardening viz. Sowing, Setting, Grafting, Transplanting, Salleting, &c. with the Names, Descriptions, and Uses, of all kinds of Plants, Flowers, and Fruits. The Raising and Ordering of all manner of Forest and Fruit-Trees, and Dwarfs. Agriculture in the various Parts of it, and the modern Improvements made therein. The Gentleman's Recreation; or the Arts of Hunting, Hawking, Fishing, Fowling, Ferreting, Cock-Fighting, &c. including (besides the several Animals) the Tackling, Nets, and different Instruments used therein. The Breeding, Feeding, and Managing of all sorts of Cartle, as also of Bees, Poultry, and Singing-Birds; with all their respective Diseases, and Cures. The preparing of all Sorts of English Liquors, common Eatables and Drinkables; with the several parts of Country Housewifry. The Digging, Refining, &c. of London: Printed for J. Nicholson, at the Kings-Arms in Little Britain, 1704. First Edition. Illustrated. [844] pp. 8vo (195 x 120 mm). Contemporary paneled calf, neatly rebacked. Bookplate of Matrcus Crahan. First Edition. Illustrated. [844] pp. 8vo (195 x 120 mm). Variously attributed to Nathan Bailey and John Worlidge. ESTC T138448; Not in Henrey

Jean de BEAURAIN (1696 &#150; 1771). Paris, [circa 1761-2]. Copper engraving (Good, old folds with very minor loss at fold vertices in centre, some small old stains), 38 x 46 cm (15 x 18 inches).GIBRALTAR / STRAIT OF GIBRALTAR / ANDALUSIA / MOROCCO: CARTE DU DÉTROIT DE GIBRALTAR SON PLAN PARTICULIER ET SA VUË EN PERSPECTIVE ET CEUX DE CADIX & CEUTA. DÉDIÉE ET PRÉSENTÉE A MONSEIGNEUR LE COMTE DE ST. FLORENTIN MINISTRE ET SECRETAIRE D'ETAT PAR SON. - This attractive and engaging separately-issued map sheet features two main maps and three cartographic insets relating to the enclave and Straits of Gibraltar. The main map on the left-hand side, &#145;Carte du Détroit de Gibraltar,&#146; contextualizes the entire piece and depicts the strategic entrance of the Mediterranean, with Andalusia occupying the upper portion, while Morocco lies to the south. The inset, &#145;Plan de Cadix,&#146; in the upper part details Cadiz, the Atlantic headquarters of Spain&#146;s Armada Real, while the inset in the lower part, &#145;Port de Ceuta,&#146; depicts the Spanish enclave of Ceuta on the north coast of Morocco. The right-hand portion of the broadside features a detailed plan of Gibraltar, the peninsular bastion dominated by the famous &#145;Rock of Gibraltar&#146; that had been in British hands since 1704, while a small perspective view of the enclave is featured below. Ever since Gibraltar was seized by Britain&#146;s Royal Navy, in 1704, it had occupied an outsized role in global affairs. Spain and her fellow Bourbon ally France were virtually obsessed with recapturing &#145;The Rock&#146;, enraged that Britain could command the Straits of Gibraltar from what they considered to be Spanish soil. The present map was made during the Seven Years&#146; War (1756-63), whereupon France (joined by Spain from 1761) waged a global conflict against Britain and her allies. Spain had unsuccessfully besieged Gibraltar in 1727, and in 1761-2 the Bourbon powers openly planned to mount another siege, but this was eventually called off, as events elsewhere motivated a reallocation of resources. This fine broadside was issued by the prominent Paris map publisher Jean de Beaurain (1696 &#150; 1771) in an effort to take advantage of the popular interest brought about by rumours of the planned siege of &#145;The Rock&#146;. The present first state of this broadside is rare, and while undated, it is was certainly issued late in 1761 or early in 1762, as it is referenced in a contemporary French periodical, Affiches, Annonces, et Avis Divers, no. 13 (March 31, 1762). A subsequent edition, dated 1779, issued form the same plate, is still scarce, but much less so than the present first state. References: Bibliothèque nationale de France: 40644574.

INDIA CREQUINIERE M. De LaConformite des Coutumes des Indians Orientaux 1704 - (INDIA) CRÉQUINIÈRE, M. De La. Conformité des Coutumes des Indiens Orientaux, Avec celles des Juifs & des autres Peoples de lâ&#128;&#153;Antiquité. Brusselles: George de Backer, 1704. 16mo (4 by 6-1/4 inches), contemporary half crushed red morocco, raised bands, marbled boards and endpapers. $2200.Second edition, issued one year after the virtually unobtainable first edition, of Créquinièreâ&#128;&#153;s important early work proposing cultural similarities between early East Indian and Jewish cultures, illustrated with 12 spendid engraved plates after Jacobus Harrewyn depicting dramatic battle scenes and religious rituals, handsomely bound in crushed red morocco by Selz-Niedree.In Conformité des Coutumes des Indiens Orientaux (Uniformity of the Customs of Oriental Indians and those of Jews and other Ancient Peoples), French religious scholar Le Sieur de la Créquinière sought to trace â&#128;&#156;similarities between modern Indians and ancient Jewsâ&#128;¦. attempting to fortify the historicity of the Old Testament by enlisting Indians as surrogates for ancient Jews (Sutcliffe, Judaism and Enlightenment, 74). De la Créquiniere, who spent a number of years in India, proposes early Hebrew and East Indian civilizations share major religious origins. To key modern scholars, Conformité â&#128;&#156;is an important work in the genesis of historical ethnologyâ&#128;¦. As the title implies, the focus is mostly on the comparison between the East Indians and the Jews, but a number of references to the ancient Romans are also madeâ&#128;¦. As Joel Reed rightly arguesâ&#128;¦. It serves both to highlight â&#128;&#152;the presence of transcultural religious concepts and practices,â&#128;&#153; but also to diminish â&#128;&#152;the relative importance of any particular religionâ&#128;&#157; (Lurbe, 18th-Century Ireland Society 14:133). The same publisherâ&#128;&#153;s 1703 first edition is very rarely found. Precedes the 1705 first edition in English. With engraved ornamental initials, head- and tailpieces. Containing 12 engraved plates after Jacobus Harrewyn, depicting religious and cultural practices, including images of funeral rites, snake charmers and a battle scene with elephants and camels. Leaf of publisherâ&#128;&#153;s ad at rear. Text in French. Querard IV, 372. Cioranescu 35431. Text and plates fresh with only light scattered foxing, mild edge-wear to boards. A lovely near-fine copy. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]